SWEN Capital Partners has hired two managing directors to oversee the launch of a SWEN Blue Ocean strategy to invest in innovations that promote ocean regeneration, with a focus on three major threats to ocean environments: overfishing, pollution and climate change, by funding start-ups with proven technology and market traction.

The IKEA Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation are partnering to launch a $1 billion global platform to fight climate change and energy poverty, the foundations announced.

A fund in the South has issued its RFP seeking an investment consultant to help oversee its endowment portfolio.

A state university system has issued an RFP seeking an investment consultant for its defined contribution retirement plans.

A university based on the West Coast revised its target asset allocation and retained its investment consultant at a meeting last month.

A university in the Midwest approved a commitment to a newly formed venture capital fund-of-funds and will also consider a real estate commitment at its board meeting this week.